TA558

First seen

2018-01-01 00:00:00

Primary motivation

financial-gain

Sophistication

intermediate

Resource level

organization

Actor type

criminal

Last IoC activity

2026-07-22 00:35:17

Profile updated

2026-07-07 11:46:08

Targeted industries: retail-and-hospitality transportation-and-logistics

Targeted regions: country_code:br country_code:mx country_code:us country_code:es country_code:pt

Context

Since 2018, security researchers tracked a financially-motivated cybercrime actor, TA558, targeting hospitality, travel, and related industries located in Latin America and sometimes North America, and western Europe. The actor sends malicious emails written in Portuguese, Spanish, and sometimes English. The emails use reservation-themed lures with business-relevant themes such as hotel room bookings. The emails may contain malicious attachments or URLs aiming to distribute one of at least 15 different malware payloads.